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Hello, everybody from all around the world. Thank you for tuning in once again. This is podcast 21. And I was just thinking how there is this tendency when we practice meditation that we sort of try to disassociate ourselves from the world. We distance ourselves from from our regular life, our ordinary life.
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And I can see why people do this. A lot of the time people approach meditation because they've been traumatized or their life is chaotic. It's just too much. They're just at the... their wits end they're stressed out they're burning out they have taken on too much
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in life and they decide to uh they decide to find a way to become more peaceful or or uh or to um you know sort of not have so much complication in their life. And this is very good. This is very good to have that as the impetus for you to begin your interest in the Dharma,

When we live in a physical body, we must take care of that body. It’s not enough to simply want to find a little bit of peace, we must develop this aspiration of Bodhicitta, a real genuine level of Bodhicitta. In this, we are committed to awakening, which is really having an open heart and mind, which means opening ourselves up to reality, rather than living in a fantasy world.

On this day, I pray that we all awaken. We can still be part of the world; the trick is that we simply abandon the insanity of it. We find a way to discover true sanity. If we enter the Spiritual Path, developing genuine Bodhicitta, then awakening will most certainly follow.

Blessings in Light,

Lama Robert

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